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Sentences ending with thorns

Yet--there I agree with Archibius--life's greatest joy--love--is blended with pain, as yonder branch of exquisite roses from Dolabella, the last gift of friendship, has its sharp thorns. [10]
They have, also--which was far more interesting to me--a piece of the true cross, and some nails, and a part of the crown of thorns. [5]
They often also turn this part of their bodies to other monkeys to have bits of dirt picked off, and so no doubt it would be with respect to thorns. [1]
His rose of triumph had its thorns. [11]
The smiling pride that calmly scorns Those foolish fingers, crimson dyed In laboring on thy crown of thorns! [6]
Bless you, the pot on the crackling thorns! [11]
When we are plotting against a man we are inclined to regard him as an enemy, and if he offers us a rose we believe it to be for the sake, not of the perfume, but of the thorns. [10]
Satan has also his Eden of fiery roses, but they do not last long, and when they wither, put forth sharp thorns. [10]
Paying no further heed to it, she answered in a cold, haughty tone: "Thank your mistress, and tell her that I appreciated her kind intention, but the roses which she sent me were too full of thorns. [10]
Ah, his own heart had often bled, as the pure brow of this poor, persecuted, tortured saint bled beneath its crown of thorns. [10]

Sentences containing thorns two or more times

The crown of thorns was made of real thorns, and was nailed to the sacred head. [5]

More example sentences with the word thorns in them

It has never yet granted me any great, complete success, and if I was occasionally permitted to pluck a flower, my hands were pricked by thorns and nettles! [10]
It should have worn a crown of thorns, but it flaunted a crown of roses. [11]
One had as well meddle with a porkpen, which hath thorns all over him, as try to deal with William when his eyes be rolling in that mad way. [6]
But the thorns tore my tender flesh, and I bear to this day marks of the deep wounds they inflicted. [6]
With their fingers they pull out thorns and burs, and hunt for each other's parasites. [1]
While I was suffering from the effects of my fall among the thorns I was attended by my old nurse, assisted by another old woman, by a physician, and my father, who would take his share in caring for me. [6]
Out of this place she got the crown of thorns, the nails of the cross, the true Cross itself, and the cross of the penitent thief. [5]
I'd rather lie on thorns than enter the miserable hole. [10]
Laurels grow green on the battle-field, love twines garlands of roses-roses with thorns, yet beautiful roses! [10]
For the case of the monkeys extracting thorns from each other, see s. 54. [1]
As Wolff thought of Heinz Schorlin, it seemed as if Fate had thrown him into the way of the Swiss that he might feel with twofold anguish the thorns besetting his own life path. [10]
It represented you, my Lord, on the cross, and your head bowed in agony, with its crown of thorns, was a very sorrowful sight. [10]
Thou, O Thou Most High, art my witness that I earnestly seek it, but so soon as the thorns tear my flesh the drops of blood turn to roses, and if I put them aside, others come and still fling garlands in my way. [10]
Only the strongest men can withstand it, only reformers who are such in deed, and not alone in name, can snap their fingers at it, and liken it to the crackling of thorns under a pot. [9]
Her dress caught in the thorns, and before she could disengage it, the beautiful Bartja was standing before her, helping her to get free from the treacherous bush. [10]
Then she fled homeward as quickly as she could, torn and bleeding from the wounds of thorns and briars, but more lacerated in mind, and threw herself upon her bed, distracted. [12]
For Respite, disputatious Heirs a Bed Of Thorns for them will furnish. [5]
Science gathers not grapes of thorns or figs of thistles. [5]
Some of the good seed fell among the thorns of criticism. [6]
The shrines were frequent along the roads--figures of the Saviour nailed to the cross and streaming with blood from the wounds of the nails and the thorns. [5]
There is nothing for it but to cast my body among thorns like Saint Francis. [10]
There were a few people who did not like him; but they were of that cantankerous minority who put thorns in the bed of the elect. [11]
I have no ethics, and yet I am on the side of the just when they do not put thorns in my bed to keep me awake at night! [11]
I was so eager to get hold of every pretty thing that I giddily grabbed for it, sometimes when it was too far off, and sometimes when it was but six inches away but seemed a foot--alas, with thorns between! [5]
To question the cords for you in the moonlight now is to expect to gather grapes from thorns. [10]
He felt the convulsive spring in the form of a faint, impotent spasm,--the rush of air,--the thorns of the stinging and lacerating cradle into which he was precipitated. [6]
During this dreadful breakfast I have been sitting on thorns. [10]
But he was afraid of being taken for a thief and again imprisoned, for his apron had been tattered by the thorns, and his sandals had long since dropped from his feet. [10]
One--a "crown bearer"--had a face streaming with blood, from the crown of thorns which he had vowed to wear day and night in memory and imitation of the Redeemer's sufferings, and which on this great occasion he pressed hard into the flesh with ostentatious martyrdom. [10]
The pain of a crown of thorns worn for a world that did not understand. [9]

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